UPDATED with video:Saturday Night Live has been skewering Disney for decades (remember Lindsey Lohan in Real Housewives of Disney in 2012? Or Debbie Downer aT Disney World in 2004?) and this weekend’s edition used the studio’s billion-dollar animated hit Frozen 2 to lob some satirical snowballs at corporate Hollywood…
EXCLUSIVE: Klaus, Ford v Ferrari, and animated shorts Sisterand Hair Loverepped Oscar nominations earned by alumni of The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) yesterday.
Since the creation of the Best Animated Feature Oscar category in 2001, 12 of the winning films were directed by CalArts alums with the last…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker continued its global domination in the third weekend, now with a worldwide cume of $918.8M. It will soon become the Mouse's 7th release of 2019 to cross the $1B mark. The current split is $450.8M domestic and $468M at the international box office…
After becoming Disney’s 6th film of 2019 to cross the $1B threshold worldwide when it hit the milestone in mid-December, Frozen 2 has now capitalized on holiday play to become the biggest animated movie of all time globally. With an estimated $1.325B, the Chris Buck/Jennifer Lee-helmed sequel has iced the previous…
Before sitting down to pen the script for Frozen 2, director Jennifer Lee used every creative tool at her disposal to get inside the hearts and minds of her characters. Only in this way could Lee hit on a story for a sequel worth making, that would stand up to the first Frozen.
Directed by Lee and Chris Buck, Frozen…
UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker has climbed to $724.8M globally after 12 days in release. The split is $363M from the international box office and $361.8M domestic. This is after a $94.3M offshore weekend, which is above projections and reps just a 43% drop from the debut frame…
SUNDAY UPDATE, writethru: Disney/Lucasfilm's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker has come in below industry projections, and predecessor Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in its offshore bow. The international box office total this debut weekend is $198M in 52 material markets. That's about 16% off The Last Jedi at today's…
After Idina Menzel’s Elsa "Let It Go," Frozen 2 took her "Into the Unknown," the signature song in Disney’s animated sequel.
In Frozen 2, which has grossed $1.038 billion worldwide since its release less than a month ago, Elsa has been hearing voices calling her back to the Enchanted Forest. When the voices become too…
In the innovative Netflix animated filmI Lost My Body, a severed hand skitters across the streets of Paris trying to reunite with its missing anatomical companion. Whether that hand winds up grasping an Oscar is up to Academy voters, in a year when a record 32 contenders qualified for the Best Animated Feature race.
I…
With Frozen 2, the long-anticipated sequel to a 2013 smash from Walt Disney Animation Studios, songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez knew they had a lot to live up to, recognizing at the same time that they couldn't rest on their laurels.
Winning their first Oscars for Frozen, the songwriting duo have…
UPDATE, writethru: As global turnstiles start greasing up for next week's Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, audiences are continuing to warm up to the two current Hollywood titles in wide release: Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level and Disney's Frozen 2. Expanding to another 34 offshore hubs after an early rollout last wee…
After crossing the unprecedented $10B milestone worldwide last weekend, becoming the first studio ever to do so, Disney has bragging rights to another notch in its belt as Frozen 2 topped $1B global on Saturday. This means that the Mouse has roared to have six movies over $1B in 2019.
The international box office…
